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John Kerry and UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon have announced yet another humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to start at 8 am on Friday morning, for 72 hours.”We urge all parties to act with restraint until this humanitarian…

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While the UN won’t discuss the rocket caches and the Hamas laid booby traps in supposedly neutral UN facilities. mosques and civilian homes or Hamas using civilians as human shields, there is one thing the UN and of course, the media, weighed i…

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Three Israeli soldiers were killed today and 15 others were wounded by a Hamas booby trap. They were trying to safeguard an abandoned UNRWA medical clinic while their unit was destroying a Hamas tunnel with an entrance actually built inside the clinic.

The IDF Maglan unit had sent in sniffer dogs and a small robot into the building as a precaution and to minimize damage to the clinic before detonating a carefully placed charge that would destroy the tunnel while causing minimal damage to the building. Unfortunately the building was booby trapped and explosive charges in the walls exploded – one in the tunnel, and one in the clinic itself – brought the entire structure down on the soldiers.

Remember, this was in a supposedly neutral UN building. But in Gaza, that’s nothing unusual.Edelstein] said Hamas gunmen have used more than a thousand IEDs so far, destroying thousands of buildings in the Gaza Strip.

As an example he noted that in sweeps of a single street of 28 buildings Tuesday night, 19 were found to be booby-trapped.

No comments, by the way from the UN or UNRWA on this blatant misuse of what was supposedly a neutral building. This should make the IDF think twice about attempting to respect UNRWA buildings. If there a tunnel there, simply take it out in the easiest and least time consuming and costly way possible.Hamas is even using mosques in this way.

Israel appears to have made the decision the Army was waiting for – to let them win or to let them come home. An additional 16,000 reserves were called up, and the Israelis asked for and received a resupply of armaments courtesy of the U.S. Congress with Harry Reid finally backing down.

While the UN still hasn’t commented about all the rocket caches and Hamas laid booby traps in UNRWA facilities, one thing the UN did comment about quite extensively was the shelling of a UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza…which of course they’re blaming on Israel. It was being used as a shelter for Gazans whom had evacuated elsewhere. At least 16 people were killed and some 100 wounded.

Israel had said earlier that Israeli forces would stop attacks for four hours starting at 3 p.m., and would only target areas where rockets were being fired at Israel.

An Israeli army statement added that the “humanitarian window will not apply to the areas in which (army) soldiers are currently operating.”

“Residents must not return to areas that have previously been asked to evacuate,” the statement said, adding the the army would respond to all fire from Palestinian militants throughout the limited ceasefire.

Hamas rejected the offer of ceasefire and continued to fire rockets at Israel…which of course, the UN is not really overly concerned about.

Given that the UNRWA schools and refugee camps have been used by Hamas as tunnel entrances, arms deports and sniper posts, it was probably inevitable something like this would happen. The IDF is still investigating, but I have a feeling that we’ll find that IDF troops came under fire by Hamas and responded.

“Obviously, no one likes to see the suffering and loss of life that has occurred,” Harper said in televised remarks.

“That said, we hold the terrorist organization Hamas responsible for this. They have initiated and continue this conflict, and continue to seek the destruction of the state of Israel,” he added. Several weeks ago, Harper called on Canada’s allies and partners to recognize that Hamas’s terrorist acts “are unacceptable and that solidarity with Israel is the best way of stopping the conflict.”

And it was Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird called for a UN investigation into the discoveries of weapons caches at schools it operates in Gaza.

Thanks to Israel’s insistence on doing the right thing for their people, Israel’s security cabinet told the IDF, aka the Israeli Defense Forces, to keep hitting Hamas hard: Amid mounting diplomatic pressure on Israel to agree to a ceasefire, the security cabinet on Wednesday instructed the IDF to continue to “forcefully hit Hamas and the […]

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Of course, Arab terrorists, like anti-Zionists and terrorism groupies everywhere always jump to that next step…that since the majority of Israelis serve in the IDF at some point there are no Israeli civilians! I’m sure you’ve all heard that one before and so has Ken Roth. What he’s done in so many words ids to legitimize terrorist attacks on Israel.

Now, Ken Roth has pretty much an impeccable anti-Israel record, to the point where the founder and former chairman of Human Rights Watch, Robert Bernstein, publicly disowned the organization in 2009 because of it. Roth is described as an ‘international lawyer’ who graduated from Yale Law School. He’s been working at HWR since 1987, when he was hired by a fellow Left wing apostate Jew, Areyeh Neier, one of George Soros’ creatures who now heads Soros Open Society. Roth has headed HRW since 1993. Shouldn’t he actually know something about human rights as they apply to the laws of war?

For instance, the Geneva Convention distinguishes between ‘lawful’ and ‘unlawful’ combatants. Hamas perfectly fits the definition of unlawful because they do not wear uniforms, openly target civilians and are not fighting on behalf of a sovereign state.

Not only that, but Article 34 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifically prohibits taking hostages even among soldiers, the very thing this cretin just endorsed. So again, by definition, unlawful combatants taking hostages is a human rights violation.

Oh, I know, its Jews and Israel, and there are always special rules for them, aren’t there Mr. Roth?

You know what? The thing that bothers me most about people like Kenneth Roth is not their ‘anti-Zionism’ but their basic dishonesty. Hamas says flat out that their goal is genocide of all Jews worldwide, and they cite the Muslim scriptures to endorse it. The Ken Roths of the world grow up as Left wing apparatchniks who find Israel and the idea of a Jewish country abhorrent, because it embarrasses them with their Leftist counterparts. So they feel the need to prove their bonifides with stupidity like the above tweet.

And most of the time, they can’t even be honest about that much. While they pretend to endorse the idea of Israel’s survival, they want it ghetto-ized to indefensible borders while the West invests in ‘Palestine’ to the point where terrorist strikes against Israel make living there untenable, the Jews leave and it becomes just another Arab squat.

Unfortunately for them, the Jews aren’t going to permit themselves to be marginalized like that, and they’re staying.

The Ken Roths of the world can piss and moan about that all they like, but it isn’t going to change.

You do know exactly what you can do, don’t you Mr. Roth? You and the horse you rode in on?

Of course, Arab terrorists, like anti-Zionists and terrorism groupies everywhere always jump to that next step…that since the majority of Israelis serve in the IDF at some point there are no Israeli civilians! I’m sure you’ve all heard that one before and so has Ken Roth. What he’s done in so many words ids to legitimize terrorist attacks on Israel.

Now, Ken Roth has pretty much an impeccable anti-Israel record, to the point where the founder and former chairman of Human Rights Watch, Robert Bernstein, publicly disowned the organization in 2009 because of it. Roth is described as an ‘international lawyer’ who graduated from Yale Law School. He’s been working at HWR since 1987, when he was hired by a fellow Left wing apostate Jew, Areyeh Neier, one of George Soros’ creatures who now heads Soros Open Society. Roth has headed HRW since 1993. Shouldn’t he actually know something about human rights as they apply to the laws of war?

For instance, the Geneva Convention distinguishes between ‘lawful’ and ‘unlawful’ combatants. Hamas perfectly fits the definition of unlawful because they do not wear uniforms, openly target civilians and are not fighting on behalf of a sovereign state.

Not only that, but Article 34 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifically prohibits taking hostages even among soldiers, the very thing this cretin just endorsed. So again, by definition, unlawful combatants taking hostages is a human rights violation.

Oh, I know, its Jews and Israel, and there are always special rules for them, aren’t there Mr. Roth?

You know what? The thing that bothers me most about people like Kenneth Roth is not their ‘anti-Zionism’ but their basic dishonesty. Hamas says flat out that their goal is genocide of all Jews worldwide, and they cite the Muslim scriptures to endorse it. The Ken Roths of the world grow up as Left wing apparatchniks who find Israel and the idea of a Jewish country abhorrent, because it embarrasses them with their Leftist counterparts. So they feel the need to prove their bonifides with stupidity like the above tweet.

And most of the time, they can’t even be honest about that much. While they pretend to endorse the idea of Israel’s survival, they want it ghetto-ized to indefensible borders while the West invests in ‘Palestine’ to the point where terrorist strikes against Israel make living there untenable, the Jews leave and it becomes just another Arab squat.

Unfortunately for them, the Jews aren’t going to permit themselves to be marginalized like that, and they’re staying.

The Ken Roths of the world can piss and moan about that all they like, but it isn’t going to change.

You do know exactly what you can do, don’t you Mr. Roth? You and the horse you rode in on?

More and more questions are popping up about her tenure as Secretary of State.

The good folks over at Judicial Watch just forced the release of a number of tasty documents in the course of their ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State Department last year.

The documents include more than 200 conflict-of-interest reviews by State Department ethics advisers of proposed Bill Clinton speaking and consulting engagements during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.

In one example, in June of 2011 the State Department approved a consulting arrangement with a company, Teneo Strategy, led by Clinton Foundation adviser Doug Band. The Clintons ended the deal after only eight months, as Teneo’s ties to the failed Ponzi scheme investment firm MF Global surfaced.

And then, there were the speaking and consulting fees,over $48 million for Mr. Bill:

Clinton’s office proposed 215 speeches around the globe. And 215 times, the State Department stated that it had “no objection.”

Mr. Clinton’s speeches included appearances in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Central America, Europe, Turkey, Thailand, Taiwan, India and the Cayman Islands. Sponsors of the speeches included some of the world’s largest financial institutions—Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, American Express and others—as well as major players in technology, energy, health care and media. Other speech sponsors included a car dealership, casino groups, hotel operators, retailers, real estate brokers, a Panamanian air cargo company and a sushi restaurant.

“These documents are a bombshell and show how the Clintons turned the State Department into a racket to line their own pockets,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “How the Obama State Department waived hundreds of ethical conflicts that allowed the Clintons and their businesses to accept money from foreign entities and corporations seeking influence boggles the mind. That former President Clinton trotted the globe collecting huge speaking fees while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy is an outrage. No wonder it took a court order to get these documents. One can’t imagine what foreign policy issues were mishandled as top State Department officials spent so much time facilitating the Clinton money machine.” The potential for conflicts of interest between Hillary Clinton’s role as Secretary of State and Bill Clinton’s international ventures grew increasingly controversial in late 2008 when the former president released a list of donors to his library and foundation in what he termed “a deal between” Obama “and Hillary.” According to an AP wire story, “Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million to the foundation. Other government donors include Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman …” CNN at the time warned that Clinton’s “complicated global business interests could present future conflicts of interest that result in unneeded headaches for the incoming commander-in-chief.”

If a person, a country or a company ‘donates’ huge sums of money to a public official who’s in charge of overseeing government policies that directly affect that person, company or country it’s normally known as bribery.

The same goes if that person, company or country employs a spouse or other family member of that public official at exorbitant rates.